Hello! I encountered a script execution error using dash. Other shells execute this script without error. Perhaps there is an error in dash. Please execute my script in dash and in bash, for example. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/dash DATA=' 1 2 ${var} 4 5' test1() { local PATTERN='${var}' echo ${DATA} | while read i; do F=`echo "${i}" | grep "${PATTERN}"` if [ "$F" ]; then echo "FOUND" break fi done } test2() { local PATTERN='${var}' echo ${DATA} | while read i; do local F=`echo "${i}" | grep "${PATTERN}"` # local if [ "$F" ]; then echo "FOUND" break fi done } test3() { local PATTERN='${var}' echo "${DATA}" | while read i; do # quotes local F=`echo "${i}" | grep "${PATTERN}"` # local if [ "$F" ]; then echo "FOUND" break fi done } echo "test1" test1 echo "test2" test2 # Only in dash: ./test.sh: 28: local: 2: bad variable name echo "test3" test3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best regards.